Polars is a fast columnar DataFrame engine built on Apache Arrow, and this course teaches you to use it from Rust to do real data-engineering work. You will configure a Cargo project with the lazy and csv feature flags, load wine-ratings.csv into a typed DataFrame, and learn the difference between eager DataFrames for exploration and lazy LazyFrames for production. You will compose select, filter, slice, sort, group_by, agg, and join expressions, then read explain output to see predicate pushdown and projection pushdown rewrite your query before it runs. Module 2 puts the API to work cleaning a real wine-ratings dataset with documented drop, fill, and normalize rules. Module 3 wires everything into wine-pipeline, three Rust CLI binaries that implement a bronze, silver, gold medallion architecture over a shared SQLite database and export a top-10 grape leaderboard as CSV and JSON. By the end you will have a complete, runnable Rust pipeline you can adapt to any tabular dataset.

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Configure and use the Polars Rust crate with the lazy and csv feature flags to build typed DataFrames over Apache Arrow memory
Apply Polars expressions to clean and aggregate the wine-ratings dataset, with documented null-handling, normalization, and predicate-filter rules
Build wine-pipeline, three Rust CLI binaries that realize a bronze, silver, gold medallion architecture over a shared SQLite database
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